Thanks to ALL who attended and supported our Gala on Saturday, February 11th at the Four Seasons Hotel. It was a honor to recognize Carol and Ambassador George (Bert) Walker III for their generous dedication and compassion to our community and present them with the Spirit of Provident Award. Senator Jill Schupp received the Betty Sims Mental Health Advocacy Award for her recent legislation that mandates all school districts provide suicide prevention/intervention training to administration and staff. And, John Walsh received the Jackie Kaiser Volunteer Award for his dedicated service on the Crisis Line.

More than 1 in 3 women have experienced rape, physical violence and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime. This is a startling statistic! If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic violence, please refer them to this website.

September 5 - 11th. Let's raise awareness about the issue of suicide. Learn the signs and symptoms so you can help those in need.

In the U.S., suicide is the second leading cause of death for those 15 - 24 years of age. For all ages, suicide is the 10th leading cause of death while homicide ranks 17th. So despite all the attention that crime rates receive in the news, suicide should be a much larger concern.

Provident offers training to teach people how to recognize the signs and symptoms of suicide and also how to deal with it. Please clickhere

Our Suicide Prevention Workshop on November 20th was well attended and we are very grateful for the community partners who contributed. Big thanks to all the presenters - Linda Fehrmann from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention; Angela Tate, Behavioral Health Response (BHR); Greg Behrman, CHADS Coalition; Richard Stevenson, National Alliance for Mental Illness (NAMI); Elizabeth Makulec, Kids Under Twenty-One (KUTO) and Heather Barnett, Provident. Critical information and resources were disseminated. Also, a big thanks to SSM Behavioral Health and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for sponsoring the event. We also want to thank Temple Emanuel for allowing us to use their wonderful facility and assisting with set-up.

Our Life Crisis Services received an award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention for our dedicated 24/7 Life Crisis Hotline. We are grateful for this award and appreciate all of the AFSP's efforts to raise awareness about suicide so that we can reduce the number of suicides in the US and the World. For more information about our suicide prevention programs, please click here.

Our Executive Director, Steve Sullivan, will be speaking at the upcoming Alliance for Strong Families and Communities Conference in St. Louis, October 14 - 16. There's still time to register for this dynamic event. Click here

It was an evening of fast wheels, jousting and lots of scoring by the St. Louis Gatekeeper's Roller Derby Team on Saturday, August 15th. But in the midst of it all, there was a push for awareness and prevention. The Gatekeepers lost one of their co-founders, Evan Jones, by suicide a few weeks ago and they want to honor his memory and also prevent this type of tragedy from happening again. They contacted us so we could spread the word about our crisis hotline and other services. We're here to help those in need and

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Fox2 News interviewed Jane Smith, our Crisis Counselor, about the importance of mental health. Jane spoke about reducing the stigma of mental illness and available resources for individuals in the St. Louis area. Click here to hear her complete interview.

With one in five adult Americans experiencing mental illness in the past year,